About managing Discoverer connections About the Discoverer connections page About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections

3-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer you might want to prevent Discoverer end users from creating private connections. For more information, see Section 3.5, About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections.

3.3 About managing Discoverer connections

As a middle-tier manager, you use Fusion Middleware Control to perform the following tasks related to Discoverer connections: ■ Provide public connections to enable Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer users to start Discoverer. For more information, see Section 3.6, How to create public connections. ■ Enable Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer users to create their own private connections to start Discoverer. For more information, see Section 3.5, About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections. For information about copying Discoverer connections from one Oracle Business Intelligence installation to another, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Guide to Publishing Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlets.

3.4 About the Discoverer connections page

There are two Discoverer connections pages: ■ Connect to Discoverer Viewer, which is used to start Discoverer Viewer, by using a set of stored login details or by connecting directly. ■ Connect to Discoverer Plus, which is used to start Discoverer Plus, by using a set of stored login details or by connecting directly. Figure 3–2 shows the Connect to Discoverer Plus page. Figure 3–2 Connect to Oracle BI Discoverer page Managing Oracle BI Discoverer Connections 3-5

3.5 About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections

You can specify whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections. For more information, see Section 3.8, How to specify whether Discoverer end users can create private connections. When you enable Discoverer end users to create their own private connections: ■ End users can specify any login details such as username, password, database, and EUL for the connections that they create. ■ End users can open any workbook in any EUL to which they successfully connect if they have sufficient database privileges. When end users create private connections: ■ If they specify a database by using an alias, they can connect to databases that have an entry in the tnsnames.ora file. ■ If they specify a database by using the full tnsnames entry for the database SID, address, and port, they can connect to databases that do not have an entry in the tnsnames.ora file on the Discoverer middle tier. For example, you might enter the following string in the Database field: DESCRIPTION=ADDRESS_LIST=ADDRESS = PROTOCOL=TCPHOST=machine_ a.company.comPORT=1521CONNECT_DATA=SERVICE_ NAME=database1 Ensure that you remove spaces from the TNS string. For information about the location of the tnsnames.ora file, see Section A.1, Discoverer file locations.

3.6 How to create public connections